linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] block: fix incorrect references to disk objects

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Date:   Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:34:22 +0800
From:   Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@...il.com>
To:     axboe@...nel.dk, hch@....de, willy@...radead.org,
        sunhao.th@...il.com, hch@...radead.org
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] block: fix incorrect references to disk objects

When adding partitions to the disk, the reference count of the disk
object is increased. then alloc partition device and called
device_add(), if the device_add() return error, the reference
count of the disk object will be reduced twice, at put_device(pdev)
and put_disk(disk). this leads to the end of the object's life cycle
prematurely, and trigger following calltrace.

  __init_work+0x2d/0x50 kernel/workqueue.c:519
  synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x3af/0x650 kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:847
  bdi_remove_from_list mm/backing-dev.c:938 [inline]
  bdi_unregister+0x17f/0x5c0 mm/backing-dev.c:946
  release_bdi+0xa1/0xc0 mm/backing-dev.c:968
  kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
  bdi_put+0x72/0xa0 mm/backing-dev.c:976
  bdev_free_inode+0x11e/0x220 block/bdev.c:408
  i_callback+0x3f/0x70 fs/inode.c:226
  rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2508 [inline]
  rcu_core+0x76d/0x16c0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2743
  __do_softirq+0x1d7/0x93b kernel/softirq.c:558
  invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:432 [inline]
  __irq_exit_rcu kernel/softirq.c:636 [inline]
  irq_exit_rcu+0xf2/0x130 kernel/softirq.c:648
  sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x93/0xc0

making disk is NULL when calling put_disk().

Reported-by: Hao Sun <sunhao.th@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@...il.com>
---
 v1->v2:
 directly returning instead of assigning disk to NULL 

 block/partitions/core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/block/partitions/core.c b/block/partitions/core.c
index 3a4898433c43..b9e9af84f518 100644
--- a/block/partitions/core.c
+++ b/block/partitions/core.c
@@ -424,6 +424,7 @@ static struct block_device *add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno,
 	device_del(pdev);
 out_put:
 	put_device(pdev);
+	return ERR_PTR(err);
 out_put_disk:
 	put_disk(disk);
 	return ERR_PTR(err);
-- 
2.17.1